Cayton's Weekly

Cayton's Weekly PRICE FIVE CENTS CAYTON'S WEEKLY Published every Saturday at Seattle, Washington. U. S. A. Subscription $2 per year in advance. HORACE ROSCOE CAYTON.. Editor and Publisher Entred as second class matter, August 18, 1916, at the post office at Seattle, "Vash., under the Act of March 3rd, 1916. TELEPHONE: BEACON 3579 Office 317 22nd Ave. South THE FINAL Election day will soon come round, when Wilsonism will be drowned. Eight years of slush and prexy mush have put our country on the blush. Let's save our homes from Wilson's Cox, as he is like the sly old fox, who advocates a League of Nations, direct from European emotions. Cox gets his cue from Woodrow Wilson and drives it home like Peter Jackson, but Uncle Sam has all he wants of Woodrow's wobbly fourteen points, and next Tuesday Harding will be sent into the presidential tent, and free us from the common loot, so general to the Southern brute. We'll send all Southern Democrats to hell and throw old Prexy in a Jersey well, and Coxy back to Cleveland send, where he can do the grishen bend, and play into the Bolsheviki's hands and listen to the Sein Fein bands. This country wants no Coxy brands of booze and beer in cocktail cans. John Barleycorn must likewise go, to hades where he has a show of marching down the long hot halls to answer all the Democratic calls. Next Tuesday's vote will place on sale the Democrats' official pale, then peace and plenty will prevail and you and I will get the kale. To do all this just vote her straight and to the polls don't be too late and Tuesday night the ball will drop and Jimie Cox will take a flop. CUT OUT THE COLOR BADGE One of the great Chicago dailies is reported to have recently adopted the policy of eliminating "badge of color," in printing stories of time. Two Cleveland dailies are said to have pursued this course for some time with beneficial results. As the Washington and Chicago race riots were largely provoked by the popular sentiment aroused by newspaper headlines, stigmatizing alleged black criminals, which were in many cases unwarranted by the facts, this new departure should at least avoid that danger.—Exchange And if all of the metropolitan dailies would do likewise there would be a thousand per cent less danger of alleged race riots in the United States. It serves no good purpose to designate one's color any more so than to designate one's religion when the press has an occasion to refer to said person, and when it is done the purpose is to humiliate the person so designated. Even papers published by colored men too often fall into the habit of designating persons accused of crime by their color. Such however is but a matter of would-be retaliation. Every citizen of this country is an American and by no means a Caucasian or Negro American, but just an American and nothing more and its wholly unnecessary to prefix or suffix the designation we all love. Cayton's Weekly as a parting word prior to the election next Tuesday wants to heartily recommend to the voters the election of Claude C. Ramsay, who for the past four years has worked unselfishly for the best interest of the taxpayers and at a salary just half what the other commissioners are and SEATTLE, WASHINGTON, SATURDAY, OCT. 30, 1920 have been getting. He has worked away without building up a political machine in his own interest, and he therefore goes before the voters of the county on his merit and without making any effort for either nomination or election. He took the stand in the very outset of the campaign that the voters of the county are or should be thoroughly conversant with his official acts and if they approved of them he would receive their endorsement. So far as the primary election went they approved of his official acts and he was nominated without opposition. He is now up to the general election and the same will hold good. He has no apologies to make for his official acts and his attitude in the past in his official capacity reflects his attitudes of the future. The editor hereof wishes however to add that a more conscientious and painstaking official we never before met than Claude C. Ramsay and his fairness for all manner of man should bring to him the support of all classes of voters, which we verily believe it will and that he will be re-elected by an overwhelming majority. In closing the present campaign we trust every voter of the state will vote the Republican ticket straight, but since a lying effort is being made to discredit Gov. Hart we truly hope every colored voter will make of himself and herself a committee of one to boost for the election of Gov. Hart. We feel that he is going to be elected, but that to us is not satisfactory, we want him to get a larger vote than his party if such be possible, because his opponents have resorted to down right deceiving in order to discredit him with the voters. Hart has not only made good, but he has been politically fair and now lets do our part. There are entirely too many hundred dollar a night colored lecturers visiting the Northwest these later years, who have little or nothing new, strange or startling, save what appears in the daily press from time to time, to rehash to their hearers. We know all about all of the misfortunes of the colored folks of the U. S., and he or she who can not tell us some way to overcome them instead of about them is not bringing to us any very great message. We are quite tired of giving something for nothing. If former King Alexander of Greece ever gets back here he will doubtless have more sense than to associate with a monkey. In Chicago, 70,000 new homes were built last year and two million persons were wed and a million and a quarter new homes will have to be constructed the ensuing year. Great is Chicago. Dempsy and Carpentier are to fight in Cuba and are to get respectively $300,000 and $200,000 for so doing, and if it be like the last big fight in Cuba the public will get $000,000. Canadian booze is being taken to Spokane by the car load and the police declare they are powerless to stop it, which must mean the police of that city are getting fabulously rich. Negroes of Newport News did not lynch a Jew, who ran an automobile over a four year old colored child and killed it, because the Jew was saved by a colored preacher. Vote No on Refereudum No. 1 as it was designed for the banks and the cement trust to feather their nests and leave you with the bag to hold. VOL. V. NO. 20 EDITORIAL PARAGRAPHS After thinking it over, in your opinion was McSwiney a martyr or a suicide? Notwithstanding his great command of the English tongue yet even W. W. cannot find words to advocate the election of Jimie Cox. Just how Ole Hanson can expect the United States to go Republican with him in England is more than we can decipher, but, "let Ole do it." With the great underworld of Seattle under the ban of "move on," and the dry squad out of commission the incentive to be a policeman of Seattle will lose much of its efficacy. Not for Ramsay and Dobson to merely get by next Tuesday, but to roll up majorities for them such as no King County Commissioners ever before received should be the motto of every fair minded tax payer at next Tuesday's election. Every form of jitney service should be driven from the streets of Seattle and especially if it comes in competition with the city's municipal street car system. This in no sense applies to "for hire" cars without regular and stated runs. Three weeks and three days after the election next Tuesday will be Thanksgiving day throughout this country providing all ways Warren G. Harding is elected president, otherwise we are not quite so sure about the necessity of a public Thanksgiving. May perhaps all the Union Record has to say about the "kept press" is absolutely correct, but does it want us to understand that, it is to tell world that no one is good but its own sweet self? How ridiculously selfish and absurd is such a conclusion. By voting the Republican ticket straight you will not jeopardize the election of Warren G. Harding to the presidency of the U. S. and Louis F. Hart to the governorship of the State of Washington, and that should be ample justification for voting her straight next Tuesday. According to a published report Dr. Mark A. Matthews, Seattle's Presbyterian wonder, campaigned for the Democratic party the past week, and that too just as we had about come to the conclusion that, after a fierce struggle within Dr. Mathews had succeeded in becoming a really and truly Christian. What a pity. In declaring for Bob Bridges for governor, John C. Lawrence demonstrates that he is no better Republican in his dotage than he was in his more physically vigorous days. Johnnie has always been anything to get a big fat job and whether Bridges or Hart is elected, dollars to doughnuts, he will have his big mit out for some kind of a job. Something for nothing has always been his motto. Had have Bob Bridges been wise he would have admitted that he had no apologies to make for renting Japanese lands and in doing so he was but extending a helping hand to a deserving class of God's human family. Of course he got a little extra dough on the side for so doing, but that is a weakness of the American white man, who is suffering from an overdose of being "money mad"—in short, they are all doing it. --- ie tN, | ae Rie all et eee Oo MR ue eee ee | Mt oY 7 py AS it itl a er at ' E : se ‘ : ee : « | Ba : ca F : ; * ioe ae: Sl A “ f : Se en , + ” a be Mate i Se : ONS ie ae Se 2 hs Geen ae ean ay . BBs, |. r era ae ae Ee . : Rae OES wih ee rs . FL ae i. —_ 4. ates PETE Sar Ta eR ee ite ea | as THE PASSING THRONG Not long since I read in a Seattle daily paper a detailed account of the good work Charlie Frye, Seattle’s packing house king was doing for the public in the way of per- fecting a pulmonary institute at Riverton, an immediate Seattle suburb, and while I did not exactly drop dead at the news, nevertheless I was so badly thunder struck, using a figure of speech, that I did ,the very next thing to it. [E have known (. II. Frye for many years and for a number of years I knew him well enough to stop and talk to him on the streets and to frequently call at his office and discuss polities with him, yea even well enough to almost an- nually be the recipient of a Thanksgiving bird at his hands. Then suddenly Charlie Frye became immensely rich and immedi- ately his previous limited friendliness came to an end and for years he has not so much as spoken to me as we pass by, none of which am I complaining of, but to bring out the fact, circumstances in persons’ lives frequently alter cases. As I have almost daily seen this mighty rich man who once passingly and politically knew me, IT have said to myself, vast sums of money frequently bring about great changes in human beings. For the past ten years T had every reason to believe he had been grabbing the money. and I had heard of him in no other capacity save getting the money, and when he would pass me and in a similar way passed others he had formerly known without so much as glancing at me or in any way recognizing me, IT reached the conclusion that, Ma. C. II. Fry, the big meat packer, had developed into a money-mad grouch and had no interest whatever in his fellowman, and I kissed my limited acquaintanceship with him a long farewell. But it has been. said, one half of the world never knows what the other half is doing, and all the time that I was thinking Mr. Fry had lost interest in his fellowman, save and except to make money out of him for selfish greed, he was spending hundreds and thousands of dollars making his fellow- man, who was sick and sore, comfortable and happy. It thus transpires that all of us have our own peculiar way to demonstrate the fact that, ‘‘I am my brother’s keeper.’’ Charlie’s apparent street indifference may not have been any desire to overlook any one, but the results of an overtaxed mind, for certain it is he had often thought kindly of his fellowman and had freely spent his money to relieve his sufferings. Being of a different turn of mind I would prefer to give more smiles and fewer dollars and thereby scatter a greater amount of the seeds of human kindness and the whole, blest with a smile, as I pass by. Claude Ramsay and Tom Dobson have made good, and deserve another office hood, that they continue the good work, from which you bet, they never shirked. They pulled together like a team, and, ‘‘believe me’’ always raised the steam, which saved our taxpayers and their men, from hungry hordes and suaqking hens. One term has Claude and Tom each served but another term they each deserve, then one good term another merit. and Claude and Tom this last one should inherit, because they’ve done the best they could, to give our voters plenty of wood, and keep their fires burning — bright, from Monday morn ‘til Sunday night. One thine they did, which brings the smiles, to all the boys with auto biles. They built a honlevard round the lake, which, ‘believe ine boy.” is not a fake, for four and fifty miles it whirls, and gives ‘em lots of time to spoon the girls. Other road improvements here and there, have put all farmers in the glare, of those who from the city dive, in- quest of products from the hive, from well kept distant country farms, that have fine homes and beautiful barns, have all been done by Tom and Claude, without a breath or word of fraud. Men like these should be returned, and not permitted to be burned, by skunks, who lie by Gilmour’s watch, to bring about a voting blotch. Claude C. Ramsay Unless the signs of the times deceive me Claude C. Ramsay is going to get more votes in King county than the presidential candidate. Wherever you go its the one story, ‘‘I am going to vote for Ramsay. Oh, yes,’’ the same voter will continue, “T am going to vote the Republican ticket more or less straight, but I do like the way that man Ramsey goes after things.’’ In my opinion Mr. Ramsay is the most popular politician in the county and he will score a vietory in the general election that will place him at the head of the eligible list in case he ever desires to go a step further in the political game. I have been know- ing Claude Ramsay for thirty years and so far as T know he has always done unto others as he would have others do to him, which is one of the finest traits in the human character, and not only myself, but the general public recognizes that splendid qualification in him and I feel absolutely safe in predicting that he will lead on the Republican ticket at the coming elec- tion. The voters of King county would do themselves proud if on November 2nd next they would forget party politics and prac- tically unanimously elect Claude C. Ram- say to sueceed himself as county commis- sioner. J —, M D yf f Pt \ Wd: ba , * Tom Dobson Re-Elect, Hart Has Made Good In the person of Gov. Louis F. Hart the Republican party has presented to the voters of the state a candidate for the governorship, for whom it has no apologies to make. For the past eighteen months he has been governor and he has made good. The opposition press charges that he has endeavored to build up a political machine to force his own nomination and election, but to the contrary he made haste slowly removing Gov. Lister's appointments, yea truly he has actually removed but few of Lister's appointees and only made new appointments in case of resignation of expiration. If its a crime for those whom he appointed to ardently support him then throughout this land and country a great many crimes have been perpetuated by persons appointed to office by men elected to office. In all of his appointments Gov. Hart has endeavored to select sane, safe and sound citizens with no political instructions, but do the best you can for the good of the state. He has religiously studied the needs of the various institutions of the state and has endeavored to make of them institutions worthy of the name they bore and from the time he assumed the duties of governor it is quite apparent that they had been sadly neglected by some one: Judge Claypool in speaking about the governor said, "I have known Louie Hart for a great many years and we have not al- Doubtless McSwiney's suicide may sow the seeds of a bloody rebellion, and, may perhaps, result in Ireland being freed from the English yoke, but had he elected himself to live and fought the battles for Ireland's freedom with convincing argument instead of attempting to die a martyr, would not the world have been the better therefor? That particular brand of martyrdom does not appeal to us and in our opinion there are others of a like mind. There seems to be something of a lull in the lynching of colored citizens in the South while Jimmie Cox is swinging around the circles. In other words a flag of truce has been hoisted and a thirty day armistice has been granted the colored people by the death dealing Democrats in order to give the "niggers" time to catch their breath to vote for Cox, but that done, the deadly work will begin more determinedly than ever before. Before the next publication hereof the quadrenial election tale will have been told and the next president of this great Republic will have been in all human probability elected. You and I can play our part to that piece by voting the Republican ticket straight and take no chance by experimenting as did we eight and four years ago, and bring a similar disgrace onto our land and country that we did then-perish the thought. It occurs to us that the prosecuting attorney of Pierce County is trying to hand the public broken doses of "bull" in his fight against Betty Brainard. We are of the opinion that it was his persecution and not prosecution of one Mrs. Smith that moved her to put his lights out and if he succeeds in persecuting Miss Brainard as he is accused of doing to Mrs. Smith he might get another blumass pill. Rev. W. D. Carter will occupy his pulpit next Sunday after a six week's absence therefrom. Louis F. Hart They Laurel Apartments at 303 Twenty-second avenue South still has some vacant apartments, which might appeal to you, in case you are in need of comfortable winter quarters. The apartments are furnished and steam heated and in many respects must be seen to be fully appreciated. Take No. 9, No. 11 or Yesler Way Cars and get off at Twenty-second avenue and the biggest place in sight is the place you are looking for. Beacon 1910. Canadian provinces are to suffer from overdoses of "dry" rot. Under the auspices of the Seattle Branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People at the A. M. E. Church Wednesday evening, November 3rd, 1920, Florence Cole-Talbert, the celebrated lyric soprano singer of Chicago, with Miss Mabelle Clark, pianist, will give a high class musical. Mrs. Cole-Talbert won the diamond medal at the Chicago musical college and her fame as a lyric singer extends from coast to coast. The concert will open at 8:30. Admission 50 cents. Annual Election: The Seattle Branch of the N. A. A. C. P. will hold its annual election Monday evening, November 8th, 1920, at the First A. M. E. Church, Seattle, Washington. Those in arears with their annual dues must pay them by noon Monday, November 8th, in order to vote at the annual election. O. H. WINSTON, President. MRS. SAL HALL, Secretary. DO YOU KNOW THAT In India nearly every private house has a tennis court. Airplanes carry daily an average of 2,100 pounds of mail. Austria, for the first time in her history, is issuing nickel coins. Early races were accustomed to indicate numbers by their fingers. ways agreed in politics, but during my entire acquaintanceship with him I have always observed that he always extended a helping hand to the ones who needed assistance. He has always been a conscientiaus worker for the uplift of his fellow-man and he has taken that determination into the office of chief executive of the state." The writer hereof can verify what Judge Claypool has said and add, he is a broad gauged, liberal minded man and is as solicitious about one class of citizens of the commonwealth as another. No person can afford to claim to be a Republican and vote against Gov. Hart, the party nominee. It is conceded that Harding and Coolidge will carry the state by not less than 30,000 over their nearest opponents and if that is true then Gov. Hart should carry it by even an increased vote over them. Neither the Democratic nor the Farmer-Labor parties is making any fight on any of the Republican nominees save Gov. Hart and this is being done because both of those party leaders think they can make political capital out of Gov. Hart's appointees. Washington is at heart a Republican commonwealth and if it is it should be from head to foot and therefore irrespective of the individual fight being made on Gov. Hart by the other parties. Let the Republicans rally to his support and put him over the top. Syrian garnets are the most esteemed of the varieties of these stones. Among the wild Tauregs of the Tripoli desert, woman's sway is absolute. Twenty years ago there were only 200 motorists in the city of Chicago. The blind man can usually distinguish different colors as varying sounds. Light, striking the metal selenium, starts a mild electrical current within it. In London is a firm of wine merchants with a continuous history since 1667. Most of the automobiles imported to Japan in 1918 were of American origin. The New York Police Department has a file of more than 300,000 finger prints. More than $25,000,000 worth of metal furniture was sold in this country last year. Envelopes began to be used in England and the United States between 1840 and 1850. A feature of Japanese weddings is the building of a bon-fire made of toys of the bride. Square trunk trees are now being experimented on by a British school of forestry. Experiments have recently been made in driving motors by spirit made from straw. In China an average of only one child out of ten has an opportunity to attend school. The town of Digny, France, was reduced in population from 10,000 to 1,500 by a plague in 1629. The United States, Great Britain and Germany produce 80 per cent of the world's iron and steel output. Mrs. Abagail Wilton, an American woman, has sung "Lead Kindly Light," 50,000 times in public. An electrical novelty is a toaster and foodwarmer that will toast sides of twenty pieces of bread at once. --- J ie eed ary rt OUT Teds fa a Bee cer re pie SA Ree om ahd ce PEL CMe ate NS a eed x os eerenbe ee th ted PM Reha tke nS we i ak No PAG REE I leer . rad a Va Nae YY ee” ghee es. ig Win Me ee ey ee nt aus ; ae PA Wee whee er ~ se Bint Queen bees, each accompanied by twelve drones,’ are being mailed in large numbers from Italy to England. The petroleum deposits of Alsace are the only ones in the world operated by shafts instead of bored wells. Old coins have been found which show that the art of die-making was known to the Greeks as early as 800 B.C. At the beginning of the nineteenth cen- tury, temperance societies favored coffee houses to take th place of saloons. Hereafter all books made in America for blind readers are to be embossed in a uni- form type known as revised Braille. More than 1,000 officers and men are con- stantly employed in charting the coasts and seas of the Brtiish empire. Experts have estimated that 20,000,000 tons of paper pulp can be produced each vear from India’s bamboos and grasses. If a wealthy man in China wishes to do something to benefit the district in which he lives. he gives it a carefully made road. In New York city, according to estimate, there are halfi a million workers who col- leetively accept $100,000 in ‘tips’? every day. More than 80,000 carcasses of sheep and lambs for export were destroyed by fire in refrigerating stores at Shepparton, Victoria. Last year the United States shipped more than one-quarter billion pounds: of milk as dairy products to foreign countries. The Isle of Pines promises to become an important producer of iron, copper and other ores, as eleven mines have been located. Sheep sheds having accommodations for 70,000 animals have been recently built at Denver, Colo. They are of conerete and double decked. A Chilean mountain consists of an almost solid mass of more than 100,000,000 tons of high grade iron ore averaging 68 per cent metal, A Wisconsin inventor's chair enables suf- ferers from spinal or nervous troubles to massage their own backs with rubber rollers while seated. Receipts for the Belgian state railways for the first five months of 1920 were nearly three times what they were in the same period last year. More than sixteen municipal tramway un- dertakings throughout the United Kingdom employ women drivers, Glasgow having 220 of them. Ancient seers taught the people of Persia that amber was the coneretion of birds, and the belief is prevalent in many parts of that country now. In Palestine, Egyptian money is accepted everywhere and is made use of effectively. In Cilicia almost nothing but Turkish paper is employed. The United States now exports stockings 2nd other products of artificial silk to China, lapan, and Italy, the chief silk producing countries of the world. _ Senorita Raquel Meller, a young Spanish singer who has taken London by storm, was # poor sewing girl in Barcelona when her marvelous voice was discovered. The largest motor boat afloat is the Africa, $15 feet long, sixty feet beam, 14,000 tons carrying capacity. It is driven by engines of 4.500 horse power. A machine has been invented for winding moticn picture films so they can be shipped by mail or express without the reels upon which they usually are wound. The red and white flag of Monaco flies over the nation of least area, but there are three smaller in population. It has 23,000 inhabitants, as compared with 5,321 for An- dorra, 10,716 for Liechtenstein and 11,513 for San Marino. This year’s strawberry crop around Georetown, Del., was small, and consequently people around there have had a chance to buy ten tons of sugar at 22¢ a pound from one of the preserving plants that decided to sell what it couldn’t use. Overall manufacturers at Scranton, Pa., have made to order a pair of overalls con- taining twenty-five yards of material for a Negro at Memphis, who is 9 feet 4 inches tall and weighs 540 pounds. The girth meas- urement is 106 inches, and each of the hip pockets is big enough to hold a watermelon. Not only do the police censor every pic- ture shown in Yokohama Japan, but the latest ruling is that men and women, re- gardless of who they are, or whether or not they arrive together, must sit in separate parts of the theatre. Among other things which come under the ban are kisses, every one of which is chopped out of the pictures before it can be shown. The Mormons of Canada and many from the United States will gather at Cardston, Alberta, next May to attend the dedication of the great temple that has been in process of erection since 1914. The building will cost $1,500,000 when completed and will be unlike any other structure in the dominion. The paintings for the rooms and the decora- tions for the other interiors are now being finished. It is one of the show places of southern Alberta. The Belgian government has hit upon a novel scheme of teaching the farmers of the country better methods of farming, says Motor. The idea of a school for farmers is not new, but the idea of taking the school to the farmer by means of a motor caravan is certainly novel. The school building con- sists of three units, ene powered with a gaso- line motor; in short, a building section on a motor truck. With this powered unit go two trailers and the three rolled into posi- tion and joined together make the commodi- ous and convenient class-room. The LAUREL APARTMENTS is being renovated, redecorated and otherwise made ready for WINTER TENANCY and you and each of you are in- vited to call and inspect the vari- ous apartments and if you are in need of such accommodations for the coming winter you are solicited to become a patron of the house. The Laurel Apart- ments is one block from Jackson Street and one block from Yes- ler Way on Twenty-second Ave- nue South, 303. Hvery apart- ment in THE LAUREL is an outside one and without a single dark room in the building. It is steam heated and sufficiently furnished for immediate occu- pancy. In fact yow can be in living possession of one of the apartments within a few hours after having rented the same. The halls, lavatories and heat- ing apparatus are all well cared for by competent persons. Come and see for yourself. THE LAUREL APARTMETS Telephone Beacon 1910 at _... 303 22nd Ave. South eee sheaf NSN Nato LOR A BIG DAY AT MT. ZION BAPISTT’ CHURCH The Mt. Zion Baptist Church, 19th Ave. and East Madison St., will celebrate the Eighth Anniversary of their Pastor, Rev. W. D. Carter, on the First Sunday in No- vember. This will include the last big Rally for the vear, This will be known as The Eighth Anni- versary of the Pastor, and Every Member and Friend at Church Day. Watch for the big program. Eighth Anni VOTE ALHAMBRA CASH GROCERY Distributor of Mme. C. J. Walker’s Hair and Skin preparations. Mail, postal and express orders promptly filled. 1201-3 Jackson St. Seattle, Wash. oy ey Se eee eee go ea a een Ea iP ek Se: SARS Daeg eas Ga ag